PHYSICIST

John Hopkinson

1849 - 1898

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John Hopkinson, FRS, (27 July 1849 – 27 August 1898) was a British physicist, electrical engineer, Fellow of the Royal Society and President of the IEE (now the IET) twice in 1890 and 1896. He invented the three-wire (three-phase) system for the distribution of electrical power, for which he was granted a patent in 1882. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Hopkinson has received more than 67,396 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Hopkinson is the 675th most popular physicist (down from 626th in 2019), the 3,766th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,455th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, John Hopkinson ranks 675 out of 851. Before him are Balthasar van der Pol, Sulamith Goldhaber, Ash Carter, John C. Slater, Yoshiaki Arata, and Frederick Seitz. After him are Max Tegmark, Ursula Franklin, Edith Clarke, Paul Scherrer, John Polkinghorne, and Jan Burgers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, John Hopkinson ranks 98. Before him are William Merritt Chase, Eugen Huber, George Washington Williams, Rafael Reyes, José Manuel Pando, and Alfhild Agrell. After him are Joaquim Nabuco, Princess Marie of Hanover, Alexander Duff, 1st Duke of Fife, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Horace Lamb, and William R. Day. Among people deceased in 1898, John Hopkinson ranks 66. Before him are Karl Knies, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Osbert Salvin, Maria Katharina Kasper, Félix María Zuloaga, and Ángel Ganivet. After him are Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, James Hall, Henry Liddell, Wilford Woodruff, Axel Gudbrand Blytt, and Don Carlos Buell.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Hopkinson ranks 3,766 out of 8,785. Before him are William Henry Young (1863), Herbert Marshall (1890), Victor d'Arcy (1887), Jim Bellamy (1881), Rupert Friend (1981), and Jony Ive (1967). After him are Pauline Collins (1940), Horatio Caro (1862), Gordon Strachan (1957), Jay Kay (1969), Michael Rennie (1909), and George Borrow (1803).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, John Hopkinson ranks 72. Before him are Michael Green (1946), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Frederick Guthrie (1833), Michael Berry (1941), William Astbury (1898), and C. V. Boys (1855). After him are John Polkinghorne (1930), Alfred Ewing (1855), Raymond Gosling (1926), Brandon Carter (1942), Peter Mark Roget (1779), and Julian Barbour (1937).

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